Hacker News: halosghost

New comment by halosghost in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"

halosghost — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:21:46 +0000

See also, one of the older / more-robust entrants in this space [0], and one of the more innovative (still from a hot-second ago now…) [1].

All the best,

0. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

1. https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

New comment by halosghost in "Show HN: Unbiassly – No more hiding behind cameras"

halosghost — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:08:35 +0000

https://unbiassly.com/terms_of_service is 404.

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Show HN: TimeSeal – Cryptographic time-locked vaults with Dead Man's Switch"

halosghost — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:40:35 +0000

I flagged this as undisclosed slopware being pushed as secure cryptographic engineering with no reasonable measure of human review.

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "OpenAI Hacked, a Lot Leaked"

halosghost — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:08:45 +0000

I flagged this as heavily-clickbaited self-promotion.

All the best,

New comment by halosghost in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

halosghost — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:52:46 +0000

Just to say, I actually disagree entirely. I do not believe press releases are, almost ever, valuable. Papers are just a format (with some writing style conventions that tend to follow the given field-of-study); they may be intimidating for many, but the hacker spirit and ethos is to dive in and tackle it, and that will pay far more dividends for everyone reading it than to consume more advertising. :)

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

halosghost — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:09:53 +0000

Hey @dang (I know it doesn't work, but isn't it fun to use your imagination?), can we get this press release replaced by a link to the actual paper [0]? This one is even open-access!

All the best,

-HG

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64982-y

New comment by halosghost in "My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?"

halosghost — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:01:01 +0000

Kentucky Route Zero [0], which managed to not just be beautiful in its own right, but so perfectly captures the visual language it's aiming for that you'll just lose yourself in moments of experience.

Also, Pathologic 2 [1] (probably, if you have more fortitude than me, maybe the original or HD remaster are of value [2]).

All the best,

-HG

[0] https://www.gog.com/en/game/kentucky_route_zero

[1] https://www.gog.com/en/game/pathologic_2

[2] https://youtu.be/JsNm2YLrk30

New comment by halosghost in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

halosghost — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:15:40 +0000

From `/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose`:

    ...
           : "‘"   U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
           : "‘"   U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
        : "’"   U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
        : "’"   U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
             : "“"   U201c # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
             : "“"   U201c # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
          : "”"   U201d # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
          : "”"   U201d # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
    ...
        : "—"   U2014 # EM DASH
    ...

I genuinely do not understand how compose-lacking ɪᴍᴇs continue to see use—so much more of the full unicode spec is trivially available to you… even quite intuitively.

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Why do lawyers keep using ChatGPT?"

halosghost — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:28:26 +0000

Because, like everyone else that keeps using , they think it can be relied upon either because they don't care enough about the work they do to actually do it, or because they have bought the marketing hype.

“The beatings shall continue until morale improves…”

All the best,

New comment by halosghost in "[dead]"

halosghost — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:59:29 +0000

I flagged this post as the article is rather exclusively culture-war politics (which accurately reflects all other comments from this poster), and has nothing to do with tech or hacker culture.

[Edit:] Also, just to be clear, it's transparently prejudiced drivel that doesn't deserve the time it takes to skim the title. And yes, I read more than the title. The full article is garbage. :)

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack"

halosghost — Thu, 01 May 2025 23:42:33 +0000

Note that this is actually one of the things Anubis does. That's what the proof-of-work system is, it just operates across the full load rather than targeted to a specific user's load. But, to the GP's point, that's the best option while allowing anonymous users.

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "What the heck is AEAD again?"

halosghost — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:11:21 +0000

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

halosghost — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:41:36 +0000

I don't understand how it is harming anyone—unlike web designers who actively design inaccessible websites—and while I suppose I could offer a reason, I don't particularly feel the need to explain myself.

I am sorry that this seems to have struck a nerve for you. And, as I genuinely mean to convey every time, I wish you…

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

halosghost — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:11:12 +0000

While I fully understand, and try hard to refrain from making such comments, given that the actual point of this article is about stress-relief, but it leverages design patterns which are genuinely awful for accessibility and positive, consistent experiences on the web, it does actually feel topical to me.

Put another way, I do not believe this is about a “tangential” annoyance.

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

halosghost — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:05:53 +0000

What can I say? It's a habit I developed long ago… [0][1]

All the best,

-HG

[0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1417817#p1417817

[1] for anyone who doesn't have an Arch BBS account: https://0x0.st/8OL4.png

New comment by halosghost in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

halosghost — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:44:14 +0000

As opposed to overly-engineered websites that hijack [0] scroll-behavior, which only increase anxiety and fury.

ಠ_ಠ

All the best,

-HG

[0]: web-designers take-note, the normal term [1] in the field for doing this refers to violent crime. Think on your sins.

[1]: https://robinrendle.com/notes/scrolljacking/

New comment by halosghost in "Firefox starts testing "Link Previews""

halosghost — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:17:21 +0000

Given that Firefox now sells your data [0], this move should be seen as nothing less than actively adversarial.

The ship has been sinking for a while; now the crew is trying to light the remaining decks on fire.

All the best,

-HG

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

The Authenticity Drought

halosghost — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/04/03/the-authenticity-drought/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578041

Points: 7

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New comment by halosghost in "Ask HN: Can we please come up with a better name than "Vibe Coding"?"

halosghost — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:46:44 +0000

Broadside coding?

It appropriately invokes the scattershot nature of generative tooling (“this code couldn't parse the broadside of a barn”) and the violent and malicious nature of the ones in-control of such things (“I stumbled on an indie site! Bring the broadside to bear! All scrapers, free-fire!”)…

All the best,

-HG

New comment by halosghost in "The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards"

halosghost — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:49:50 +0000

Yeah, haven't read the book, but the article completely ignores "EEE."

All the best,

-HG